Students from the University of Florida say education about the 9/11 attacks 'should avoid placing blame' and called for a stop to perpetuating ideas of 'American exceptionalism' in the latest example of woke ideas run amok on college campuses.
Ahead of the 20th anniversary, student reporter Ophelie Jacobson surveyed students at the Gainesville campus to ask their opinions about education surrounding the terrorist attacks on September 1, 2001.
She noted that students today were too young- or not alive -during the 9/11 attacks to have their own memories of the tragic events. Most students said that they did not remember learning about the 9/11 attacks extensively during their schooling.
However, most did agree that educators 'should avoid placing blame' to avoid bolstering Islamophobia and should be careful to explain that the terrorists were extremists.
They also suggested that the curriculum on the 9/11 attacks should not perpetuate ideas of 'American exceptionalism.'
Campus Reformer student reporter Ophelie Jacobson (pictured right) asked students from the University of Florida to share their opinions on how the 9/11 attacks should be taught
Many of the students surveyed agreed that 9/11 lessons 'should avoid placing blame' and 'American exceptionalism.' One student (pictured center), claimed American exceptionalism 'rooted in a lot of colonialist and imperialist notions of how we should treat other people'
American exceptionalism is the ideology that the United States is inherently different and better than other nations. One female student told Jacobson that the U.S. should 'stop propagating this idea that our nation is best no matter what.'
According to one student, American exceptionalism is 'rooted in a lot of colonialist and imperialist notions of how we should treat other people.'
Another student claimed that American exceptionalism continues as the country often skips over the 'bad parts' of history to make our country appear better.
Jacobson reports for the Campus Reformer, a conservative college news organization whose stated mission is to expose 'liberal bias and abuse on the nation's college campuses.'
The Campus Reformer is bankrolled by the Leadership Institute, a nonprofit that has trained conservative activists for nearly 40 years.
Her article was published less than two weeks after the Virginia Department of Education was slammed for promoting a teacher training video which instructs teachers to avoid calling the 9/11 killers 'terrorists', and to avoid promoting 'American exceptionalism' during lessons about the attacks.
The nearly two-hour long video, which has since been removed, was posted on the VDOE's YouTube channel to promote a 'culturally responsive and inclusive 9/11 commemoration' to guide teachers how to broach the sensitive
